Museum exhibit /Hammer
A home-made hammer. Second half of the 1940s. It was made by Antanas Rushkis (born 1924), a political prisoner, in one of the camps in Kemerovo oblast' (Taiga Station). In November, 1945 (1946?) Antanas Rushkis was sentenced to 10 years in a corrective labour camps followed by 5 years of internal exile. He served his time in camps in the Kemerovo oblast' (Taiga Station) and the Karaganda oblast' (LugovoiLag and then PeschanLag). He was released from exile in 1962 and returned to Lithuania. The hammer is kept in the Palanga Museum of Resistance and Exile (Lithuanian Republic). (Photo: December, 2010). 
 
 
 
 
Registration number in museum acquisition book GEK-218
 
Date and place of creation1940s, Taiga Station, Kemerovo oblast'.
 
Years and places of existence in subject-related function1940s, Taiga Station, Kemerovo oblast'.
 
SizeLength 16cm, head – 6 cm, width of handle 1.8cm.
 
Materials
 
MaterialsWood
 
Detailed annotationA home-made hammer. Second half of the 1940s. It was made by Antanas Rushkis (born 1924), a political prisoner, in one of the camps in Kemerovo oblast' (Taiga Station). In November, 1945 (1946?) Antanas Rushkis, liaison officer of a partisan group called “Klevas” (“Maple”) in the Klaipeda Region of Lithuania, was sentenced on 26.11.1945 (according to other sources, 1946) to 10 years in a corrective labour camps followed by 5 years of internal exile. He served his time in camps in the Kemerovo oblast' (Taiga Station) and the Karaganda oblast' (LugovoiLag and then PeschanLag). He was in exile in Karaganda from 26.01.1956 and later in the Uzhursk Region of Krasnoyarsk krai. He was released in February, 1962 and returned to Lithuania.
 
PersonsRushkis Antanas, made and used the hammer
 
Web page?Yes
 
 
Museum exhibit /Hammer